IC CONTACT (Victory Road)

[foolishwren]

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"Yo, it's Heather. I'm probably asleep or one of the Pokemon ate my 'Gear or something so I can't answer you right now. But feel free to leave a message or something.
I'll probably get back to you. ... Probably. Peace out."

Click!



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Comments

[Action | May 16th]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Heather generally has "getting ready to go" down to an art-- she's usually the first one to wrap up and wait around to hit the road.]

[Tonight, she's zonked out on a hay bale, laying on her back with an arm lazily thrown over her face-- which she lifts when Envy hails her.]</sub>

Huh?

Oh... no, I didn't. Did something happen?

_{[She's already sitting up and grabbing her bag to get the 'Gear out, curiously.]}

[exeggutorhead]

[As soon as she's sitting up and there's room, Envy plops down right next to her on that bale.]

Yeah, something. Find the post from the really awkward scientist guy and the helmet dog.

It's something.

[GO WATCH IT, HE'LL WAIT.]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Once he's seated, she flops back against him without a word or even a glance. He's a pillow now.]

[It doesn't take her long to find the video on her feed, and as it plays, her brows rise higher and higher.]</sub>

... Well, that was one of the more awkward things I've ever seen.

What the hell?

_{[Someone teach that guy how to have a stage presence. :I]}

[exeggutorhead]

[BEING A GIRLFRIEND PILLOW IS A NICE JOB.]

[Envy snorts at her reaction.]

Right? He had no idea how to be on the camera.

But other than that, look at that Pokemon. I haven't seen anything like that since I was back in Amestris.

[foolishwren]

<sub>[He's not necessarily the softest pillow, but he is her favorite.]

[She sounds a little distracted as she replies, going back to the beginning of the video to let it play again.]</sub>

Yeah, yeah, I'm looking... damn. I've never seen anything like that period.

_{[It's.... unsettling, but not unsettling in the way that, say, the monsters she'd faced in the Otherworld are.]}

... Am I hearing that right, they're just giving these things away for free?

[exeggutorhead]

Yeah, it looks like they've combined a couple of different things all into one...there were a few alchemists we worked with who were good at that.

[...although that's beside the point, and he trails off to go back through the announcement.]

It...looks like it? I mean, there's all these requirements, and they want reports. But nothing about a cost.

[foolishwren]

_{[She nods, distractedly, scooting the video backwards so that she can watch that intriguing footage of the big patchwork canine obsessively sucking on that labcoat sleeve.]}




.... I kind of want one.

[exeggutorhead]

...what, you do?

I mean, these guys seem...shady. I don't think that guy's ever even SEEN a live animal before, and all this made to order in a lab stuff...

[...]

Then again.

[He is now clearly ALSO thinking about it.]

[foolishwren]

Yeah, I mean... look at it.

It's kinda cute, in that... 'I was grown in a test tube and I'm experiencing the delights of sucking on cloth for the first time' kinda way.

_{[SHE WOULDN'T HAVE THOUGHT THAT SEVEN YEARS AGO. But now? Maybe she's grown as a person or something.]}